GREENVILLE, N.C. —Entrepreneurship is in Fred George’s bloodline.
“Every ancestor I know was a businessman,” George told The Daily Signal, as he stood on the floor of one of his five secondhand Trade It! retail stores in North Carolina. “I’ve got decades of experience, and the things that I learned growing up from my dad, who’s a businessman, he learned from his dad,” he said.
Trade It! operates somewhat like a pawn shop, but without the cash loan component. Individuals sell items, whether a TV, a watch, or a piece of furniture, to the store and then the store resells the items.
Despite his years of experience, George says he has had plenty of ups and downs as a businessman, but “the [President Donald] Trump years were the…
